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as excited as we can get over shiny new computer parts the vast majority of them

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inevitably get to a point where they're woefully out of date but before you

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Chuck your old parts or even your entire old rig into an e-w pile we want to give

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you some surprisingly useful ways to keep using that old Hardware if you're

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having issues with your off-the-shelf router you can actually turn your old PC

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into a router instead you see dropped connections and other router problems

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are often caused by the underpowered hardware inside getting overwhelmed but

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the good news is that you even a relatively slow PC from a decade ago can

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run circles around the typical store-bought router in terms of

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performance we actually have a whole video that goes into more detail on how

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to do this but it's mostly a matter of installing a network card and one of

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several free operating systems that handle traffic routing and firewall

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duties it does take a little bit more work to configure properly than a

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consumer grid router but once you do you'll have a powerful customizable

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setup that is far less likely to crash at in opportune times another good idea

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is to just breathe some life into that older system so that it can still

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accomplish basic tasks the culprits behind the slow performance of older

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systems say from the last 15 years or so tend to be either a Reliance on Old

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mechanical hard drives or insufficient RAM the good news is that ssds with

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modest capacities are quite cheap and it's still also possible to get older

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kinds of RAM such as DDR3 for not a whole lot of money either meaning it

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might be preferable to just upgrade your old PC instead of shelling out for a

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whole new one if you just need need something responsive enough for web

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browsing productivity and video calls and even though there's been some

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consternation over Windows 11 system requirements some of them are easy

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enough to bypass if you want a current OS on older hardware and failing that

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you could always try Chrome OS Flex which is free and designed to run easily

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on older computers but what if you have an old graphics card laying around we'll

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if your graphics card is old enough it could be a great addition to a retro PC

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build there are a good number of older titles that simply do not run well on

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newer Hardware even with Community mods meaning a GPU that's old enough could

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allow you to run these games without the messy compatibility issues as long as

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you have core components from a similar era but what if you have a newer card

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that's no longer supported say something like a GTX 580 if you have a rig to

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stick it in you could always do some good for the world and contribute to a distributed computing project like

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folding at home which conducts disease research by utilizing unused Cycles on

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your PC and while it can run on CPUs gpus generally provide significantly

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more processing power when it comes to simulating protein folding finally

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here's a good idea for those of you who are really into music TV or films you

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can always set up a dedicated home Nast or network attached storage where all of

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your media can live and be accessible from anywhere on your home network while

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it's obviously true that just streaming media from a paid service is more common

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these days owning your media is still quite popular among home theater

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enthusiasts and not only does a Nas not need tons of processing power but it's

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also a good way to reuse any mechanical hard drives you've got laying around

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NASA of course can put all that storage to use in other cool ways too such as

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running a surveillance server locally hosting smart home functionality if you

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don't want to rely on Commercial cloud service or deg Googling your life if

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you'd rather have your Cloud photos live at your house rather than in a Google

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server Farm where who knows who's looking at them have you ever repurposed

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your old equipment for a cool project we didn't mention let us know down in the

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comments and if you're interested in knowing more about selling your old gear

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go watch this video next